Dangers of Tanning Beds

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies UV tanning beds in the highest cancer risk category "Carcinogenic to Humans." (1)

Whether you get a tan outside or in a tanning bed, you are exposing your skin to damaging ultraviolet radiation (UVR). Too much UVR causes skin cancer.

Tanning is your skin's natural defense against damaging UVR from the sun and tanning beds. Your skin darkens to try to block the rays from reaching the deeper layers of your skin. The tanner you are, the more damage you are doing to your skin!

Just one indoor tanning session increases a person’s chances of developing melanoma by 20 percent. (2)

Using a tanning bed before age 35 increase a person’s risk for melanoma by 75 percent. (3)